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ISLAMABAD: An anti-corruption court in Pakistan on Thursday barred former prime minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi from issuing provocative statements against state institutions, including the army, and officials. During the hearing of a petition seeking a fair trial, Judge Basir Javed Rana of the Accountability Court ...

Reported By: Ananya SinghLast Updated: April 24, 2024, 17:48 ISTThe court's decision came in response to the family's plea, which alleged negligence on the part of authorities. (Getty)The court clarified that the principle of strict liability would only be applicable in cases on non-natural use of the land and ...

New Delhi, Apr 21: The National Green Tribunal has directed the member secretaries of all state pollution control boards and pollution control committees (in Union Territories) to file affidavits explaining why a large number of sanctioned posts are vacant. Noting that almost 50 per cent of the posts across ...

WASHINGTON: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to China next week, which officials said is part of the plan of the Biden Administration to responsibly manage the US-China relationship by strengthening lines of communication to reduce the risk of miscalculation and conflict. The China visit by Blinken ...

Argentina has submitted a formal request to the US-led military bloc for ‘global partner’ status, Defense Minister Luis Petri says Argentina has officially asked NATO to accept it as a new “global partner,” the country’s Defense Minister Luis Petri announced on Thursday following a meeting with the US-led military ...

The Jammu and Kashmir High Court has quashed the detention of a 26-year-old man under the Public Safety Act, saying that India is not a police state.Justice Rahul Bharti ordered the release of the man, Jaffar Ahmad Parray, in a judgement passed on March 22. The verdict was uploaded ...

Lightning and heavy rains killed at least 49 people across Pakistan over three days, officials said, as authorities in the country’s southwest declared a state of emergency.Some deaths occurred when lightning struck farmers harvesting wheat. Rains caused dozens of houses to collapse in the northwest and in eastern Punjab ...

Observing that it was “not acceptable”, the Bombay High Court pulled up the Maharashtra government for dragging its feet on deciding to extend ex-servicemen's benefits to a martyr’s widow even as it has “wherewithal to take lightning speed decisions on certain issues”.The high court emphasised that the notification of ...

Several wounded in clashes in restive Sistan-Baluchestan province which borders Afghanistan and Pakistan.At least 11 Iranian security force members have been killed in an attack on an Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) headquarters in the southeastern border province of Sistan-Baluchestan, state media reported. In the ensuing overnight clashes with ...

Khan and his wife were sentenced to 14 years in jail on Jan. 31 #Anadolu # Pakistan News Updates Source link